Word: sulla
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...accounts of the temple at Epidauros are of a comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards...
...Sulla brought to Rome the library of Aristotle which had been enlarged by his disciple Theophrastus. The apartment used for a library must face the East, so that the owner might spend the early morning hours in reading. A private library of seven hundred volumes was discovered at Herculaneum in the end of the eighteenth century...
...dozen of them would make a pocketful of change, and if one had occasion to carry five dollars' worth of as's about a horse and team would be almost a necessity. In an historical light, also, this collection is very interesting. There are coins struck in honor of Sulla, of Brutus and of Pompey. One of the copper coins contains the liead of Gordianus Africanus II., who reigned forty days. Another shows the ill-fated features of a sixty-six-day emperor. Had these monarchs been as slow in securing their counterfeit presentments as a Harvard senior of today...